On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: > I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... > In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... > So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless.
So you should disable it. > But as we Germans tend to use a lot of compound words, it's still > somehow a very important feature. I have disabled compounds and insert regularely used compounds into my personal dictionary. Aspell is helpfull by showing compounds as alternatives e.g. "Konfiguration+Einstellungen" which will help you to decide whether the components are spelled right. A drawback of the personla dictionary words is that you need to insert all valid variants (say "Konfigurationseinstellung" as well as "Konfigurationseinstellungen"). > Is aspell capable of checking (German) grammar? AFAIK, no. There is a German grammar check available for OpenOffice, which you *might* be able to use for an end-check. However, converting between LyX and ooffice is not trivial, so I would not recommend a write in LyX -> check in oo -> continue in LyX style. Günter
